On Wednesday 07 Mar 2012 02:11:37 Dale wrote:
> Paul Hartman wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 5:04 PM, walt <w41ter@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> On 03/05/2012 04:52 PM, Mick wrote:
> >>> Also, in a full KDE desktop I select the hplip tooltray applet (or
> >>> whatever its called) and also change in there the settings to print
> >>> landscape.
> >> 
> >> I discovered (the very hard way) to delete and re-create the printer
> >> devices whenever I update hplip.  I kept seeing some really weird
> >> printing bugs that no one else was seeing, until I deleted and
> >> re-created the devices with hp-setup.  Worth a try, anyway.
> > 
> > With my printer, I must re-run the HP firmware plug-in downloader as
> > root every time I update hplip. If I forget to do that, the printer
> > either does not work at all or appears to be working but may do crazy
> > things.
> 
> I have had to do the same thing.  I have also noticed if I don't run the
> config tool that it will max out one CPU core until I kill hplip or log
> out and sometimes have to kill hplip then.
> 
> Recently, I have noticed I don't have to do that and everything works as
> expected.  Sort of surprised really.  I have got so used to redoing
> everything after a update.

Thanks guys, but I think that I only use the hpjis driver rather than the full 
hplip package.  This is because the printer is connected to this printer 
server:

http://support.netgear.com/app/products/model/a_id/2516/

which works with lpd://<ip_address>

I remember running the hp-config or some such script some years back.  It did 
not find the printer, or server, or ever configured anything.  It only tried to 
connect to USB devices.  Now looking at my machine I can't see it anywhere, 
but there's loads of other commands there!

hp-align           hp-info            hp-pqdiag          hp-systray
hp-check           hp-levels          hp-print           hp-testpage
hp-clean           hp-linefeedcal     hp-printsettings   hp-timedate
hp-colorcal        hp-makecopies      hp-probe           hp-toolbox
hp-devicesettings  hp-makeuri         hp-query           hp-unload
hp-fab             hp-mkuri           hp-scan            hp-wificonfig
hp-faxsetup        hp-pkservice       hp-sendfax         hpftodit
hp-firmware        hp-plugin          hp-setup           hpijs

I will try to run some of these when I get to that machine next, because I 
will be interested to see if it changes anything.  Any suggestions what I 
should run?
-- 
Regards,
Mick